The suspect was identified as Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old from Uzbekistan who came to the U.S. in 2010. He was shot and taken into custody. Officials found notes indicating loyalty to the Islamic State.

Check back for updates as we learn more.

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• The indictments of President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his longtime deputy have cast a shroud of foreboding over the White House. Here’s a wrap-up of the dizzying series of events on Monday.

A surprising figure emerged: a young foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, who lied to the F.B.I. about seeking to be a conduit for Russian “dirt” to the Trump campaign. Mr. Trump dismissed him as a “low level volunteer” who has “proven to be a liar,” a few hours before attending a meeting on tax reform at the White House, above.

“If Suu Kyi had so far to fall,” one analyst told them, “it is because the international community raised her so high.”

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•Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google, above, began two days of grilling in Washington by lawmakers investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, including how the online platforms were used to spread misinformation and propaganda.

The plan targets the more than 43 million people, like Li Chao, above, who still live on less than 95 cents a day, the poverty line set by the Chinese government. Five years ago, about 100 million people lived below that line. Even so, achieving Mr. Xi’s lofty vision will be no easy task.

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• A rare proxy fight between a Chinese internet company — Sina, which controls the Weibo social media platform — and one of its U.S. investors underscores the corporate governance issues that surround many U.S.-traded Chinese firms.

• John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, was roasted after he said “the lack of an ability to compromise” led to the American Civil War. [The New York Times]

• China is planning a 1,000-kilometer tunnel to divert water from one of India’s largest rivers, the Brahmaputra, to the arid Xinjiang region. [Quartz]

• A Cambodianradio station airs a popular call-in show on a topic that permeates Khmer culture: ghosts. “Even if you don’t believe in them,” the host said, “please do not insult them.” [Phnom Penh Post]

• In Germany, controversy broke out over plans to honor Anne Frank, the teenage diarist who died in the Holocaust, by naming a train after her.

• And the West tends to view Japanese art though clichéd binaries, like the ascetic Zen of a rock garden versus the gleeful kitsch of Hello Kitty. Two Japanese exhibitions in Metz, France, offer correctives.

Its popularity is understandable. As the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted: “Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving.”